This year (20-21 September 2011) the event focused on ‘OSGi – Evolution & Success’. The event not only provided the latest news about the OSGi Alliance and its current spec work, but also explored how organizations implement and benefit from using OSGi standards.
mm-lab's presentation of a project about a telematics solution for a waste management and collection system showed a successful example implementing OSGi. The solution is based on mm-lab's Advanced Telematics Platform (ATP), which is implemented on top of the Prosyst OSGi framework.
The system offers components for the office segment such as a component based web portal and a geographical information system for the planner, a special purpose on-board unit for the waste collection vehicles and smart phones for the fleet cars and of course a server segment with an interface to the CRM and ERP infrastructure of the client. The system has been successfully upgraded many times where the OSGi framework helps to maintain several applications and configurations of the different gateway types. The on-board units have been upgraded during day-to-day operation which is a unique feature for such a management system.
